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Editorials / BY: Anthony J. Salvian, MD July / August 2001
... The average surgeon in this province now has less than 1 day per week of operating time. Patients who come through ...
Letters / BY: Ray Baker, MD July / August 2001
... accepted diagnostic criteria for substance use disorders. [1]  I am not certain that failure to detect a disorder ...
Letters / BY: R.A. Bernat, MD July / August 2001
... attitudes toward work. We need to ask the questions: 1. What do we want to give? 2. What is expected of us by ...
Letters / BY: G.F. Roseborough, MD July / August 2001
... for money making private activities might be subjected to: 1. Exclusion from public reimbursement. 2. A demand to repay ...
Premise / BY: Lorne Verhulst, MD July / August 2001
... practice activity and to identify high cost outliers. [1-3]  The BC profile has several purposes. The first is to ... of inappropriate billing patterns. As examples,  Table 1  provides a simplified version of a BC practice profile ... is most responsible. In our examples, Practitioner 1 provided general practice services to 1360 patients while ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Janet Henderson, MB, BCh September 2001
... synthesis. There are two isoforms of this enzyme: COX-1 and COX-2. [1]  COX-1 is constitutively expressed and generates prostaglandins ...
Clinical Articles September 2001
... focused on the need for more physicians in Canada.[ 1 ] Cardiologists in British Columbia have noted signs and ... Results The study results are summarized here in  Table 1 ,  Table 2 , and  Figure 1 . Limitations  The model used to predict cardiologist ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Hugh Freeman, MD, FRCPC, FACP, FACG September 2001
... the clinical features of childhood celiac disease.[ 1 ] After the Second World War, Dicke and colleagues from ... lamina propria by lymphocytes and plasma cells ( Figure 1 ). Absorptive cells in untreated celiac disease appear ... appearance. These disorders must be excluded ( Table 1 ) before celiac disease can be diagnosed.[ 7,8 ] ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Joseph Noone, MD, LRCP&SI, FRCPC September 2001
... health care settings, it uses a five-step approach: Step 1   Establish a violence prevention working group and ... program along the following lines is suggested. Level 1. Personal safety education and training This consists of ... training. This level of training can be provided as a 1-day workshop and includes practical personal safety ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Diana Carter, MBBS October 2001
... defines menopause as the cessation of the menses for 1 year. [ 1]  This definition is far removed from what most women are ... the menses and ending when the menses have been absent for 1 year, [ 1]  may be a more useful concept both for women ...